Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 21: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Advocate Parimoksh Seth seeking directions to the respondents to implement the provisions of the Prevention of Beggary Act and Prevention of Beggary Rules in order to stop the menace of begging, Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar today granted four weeks time to the respondents for needful action.
“As per the order dated March 6, 2014, status report has been filed by the Social Welfare Department”, the DB said.
Senior AAG with Government Advocate appearing for the State sought some time to file status report in terms of directions issued by the DB. Accordingly, DB granted four weeks time with the direction that the needful shall be done within this period.
In the earlier directions, the DB had asked the DGP to hold survey in the whole State to find out the beggars’ population specifying them in three categories. The beggars, who are sick and suffer from contagious/infectious disease, the beggars who are below the age of 14 and are not suffering from any such disease to which reference has been made in Section 2(b) of the Beggary Act and the children, who have been pushed to the beggary, below the age of 14.
Division Bench had also directed DGP to ask the SHO of every Police Station about registration of FIRs of the missing children and place the whole data before the court before the next date of hearing.
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